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Ñawpa Pacha, 2012
Abstract Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'arana sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late ...
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Abstract Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'arana sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late ...
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2002
Architecture, to state the obvious, is a social act—social both in method and purpose. It is the outcome of teamwork; and it is there to be made use of by groups of people, groups as small as the family or as large as an entire nation. Architecture is a costly act. It engages specialized talent, appropriate technology, handsome funds. Because it is so,
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella Nair
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Architecture, to state the obvious, is a social act—social both in method and purpose. It is the outcome of teamwork; and it is there to be made use of by groups of people, groups as small as the family or as large as an entire nation. Architecture is a costly act. It engages specialized talent, appropriate technology, handsome funds. Because it is so,
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella Nair
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Environmental Monitoring at Tiwanaku
MRS Proceedings, 1995Tiwanaku is considered to be the most highly valued archaeological site in Bolivia, and one of the most significant in the New World. The aggressive environment at Tiwanaku is thought to have damaging effects on the stability of its stone architecture and monuments.
Shin Maekawa, Frank Lambert, Jeff Meyer
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On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000The site of Tiwanaku is thought of as the center of a civilization of the same name that exerted its influence over the southern Andean region from around 300 B. C. when it emerged to about A. D. 1100 when it collapsed. The architecture of Tiwanaku today is reduced to several eroded mounds, outlines of courtyard structures, weathered uprights ...
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella E. Nair
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2002
For years Andean archaeologists have realized that the ceramic and temporal chronology for Tiwanaku is inadequate, but researchers continue to use the poor chronology, and in the process they may be promoting erroneous visions of Tiwanaku’s past. This paper reports the first season of excavations at the Iwawi mound, only 23 km from the site of Tiwanaku.
William H. Isbell, JoEllen Burkholder
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For years Andean archaeologists have realized that the ceramic and temporal chronology for Tiwanaku is inadequate, but researchers continue to use the poor chronology, and in the process they may be promoting erroneous visions of Tiwanaku’s past. This paper reports the first season of excavations at the Iwawi mound, only 23 km from the site of Tiwanaku.
William H. Isbell, JoEllen Burkholder
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Tiwanaku Settlement System: The Integration of Nested Hierarchies in the Lower Tiwanaku Valley
Latin American Antiquity, 1996This study reports on changing settlement patterns in the lower Tiwanaku Valley during the Formative (1500 B. C.-A. D. 100), Classic (A. D. 400-800), and Postclassic (A. D. 800-1100) periods. Based on the association of agricultural features with these site distributions, as well as the consideration of ethnohistoric and ethnographic information, it is
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Hydrologic Engineering of the Tiwanaku
2014The city of Tiwanaku, located at the southern edge of the Lake Titicaca Basin at an altitude of 3,800–3,900 m, has been the subject of archaeological research since the late nineteenth century. Excavations revealed extensive monumental complexes and residential districts (Janusek, 2004; Kolata, 2003; Ponce Sangines, 1961, 1972; Vranich, 2009 ...
Charles R. Ortloff, John W. Janusek
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Architecture and Power on the Wari-Tiwanaku Frontier
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 2004The Wari Empire expanded and maintained control over many areas in the Andes for nearly four centuries (600–1000 C.E.). This chapter documents changes in power relations and political institutions on the Wari–Tiwanaku frontier. The settlements of both polities are well documented along their border in the Moquegua Valley of southern Peru where Wari ...
Donna J. Nash, Patrick Ryan Williams
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Tiwanaku Temples and State Expansion: A Tiwanaku Sunken-Court Temple in Moquegua, Peru
Latin American Antiquity, 1993Until recently, an entrenched view of Tiwanaku expansion in the south-central Andes as a primarily cultic phenomenon precluded discussion of state-built ceremonial facilities outside of Tiwanaku’s immediate hinterland of the Bolivian altiplano. However, recent research in the Tiwanaku periphery has found specialized ceremonial architecture that ...
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2002
The site of Tiwanaku was one of the earliest monuments in the Andes to capture the attention of the early chroniclers. These historians were keenly aware of how important the ruins at Tiwanaku were in the life of the people of the central Andes. It is therefore understandable that many of their accounts of Andean origin narratives at Tiwanaku were ...
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The site of Tiwanaku was one of the earliest monuments in the Andes to capture the attention of the early chroniclers. These historians were keenly aware of how important the ruins at Tiwanaku were in the life of the people of the central Andes. It is therefore understandable that many of their accounts of Andean origin narratives at Tiwanaku were ...
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